LD41: Aggroculture

Shoot things to gather points in order to ascend to Elder Godhood – but it’ll take a while if you just kill things. Better idea: Grow plants, water them with the blood of your enemies (or your own), and harvest the essence from them? Could work.

Controls:
Movement: WASD or arrow keys
Shoot primary weapon: Left click or spacebar
Use selected item: Right click or E
Select another item: Mouse wheel, square brackets, or Q
Activate highlighted powerup: Middle mouse button or F

Shoot enemies to gather seeds and Ascension points. Each time you gather ascension points, a marker on your powerup bar (lower right) will increment. Use the highlighted powerup to increase your speed or primary weapon. Warning: If you die, you loose all your powerups.

Seeds can be planted in the ground (or enemies) by selecting them and then throwing them. Once planeted, you have to water them for them to grow! Do this by either killing a nearby enemy around that block, or go up to it and water it yourself by selecting your Blood item and activating it (Warning: Your blood is a limited resource – use it all, and you’ll die, because of course you would). You’ll know your seed is watered if the block it’s on turns reddish.

After each day, plants will grow if they’ve been watered. Keep watering them each day until they reach their peak growth (takes about three days), then harvest them by shooting them with your primary weapon for a much greater source of Ascension points!

Or you could just keep killing enemies. It’s slower, but probably more fun. Reach 1000 Ascension points, and at the end of the day, you’ll become the newest member of the Elder God pantheon!